How to Draw Pastel Snowflakes
Found this great post for you, have fun!! http://blog.tombowusa.com/2017/11/20/draw-pastel-snowflakes/
Hi everyone! It’s Phawnda Moore here today for a fun guest post to show you how to create snowflakes with Tombow’s new Pastel Dual Brush Pen 10-pack! Some of my favorite holiday memories were spent in the snowy woods. It’s so magical with lots of white and sparkle! Those times have been gentle and quiet, watching snowflakes drift down from the sky. I do believe snowflakes are kisses from heaven, don’t you?!
The Tombow Pastel Dual Brush Pen 10-pack reminded me of snowflakes – kinder, gentler and what the world needs right now. Although I use these markers often when I teach brush lettering in Sacramento, California, I decided to create something with the bullet tip for this project. I remembered a style of painting that used only tiny dots called Pointillism. It was developed by Georges Seurat (“Soo-RAH”) in the 19th century in Paris. He made secondary shades of color by putting the dots close to each other in an impressionistic style.
Let’s try his technique and create some beauty for the holidays.
Here are the supplies you’ll need: Tombow Pastel Dual Brush Pen 10-pack (we’ll use them all!) Tombow MONO Removable Adhesive White paper gift bags Nice quality drawing paper Snowflake images (you can trace them from clip art or use rubber stamps) A metallic ink pad for stamps (I prefer a champagne color, which is neither gold nor silver, a nice neutral) Washi tape is nice to add around your snowflake print Coordinating ribbon and tissueDraw or stamp your images on drawing paper. For stamps, press firmly and hold as you count to 15 or 20. Color the snowflakes by adding dots in one of two ways – the yellows and greens in one area, and the pinks, blues, lavenders in another area, or multicolored all over.
You can see the results in my experiments below. As you use a color, place that Dual Brush Pen away from the pens you haven’t used so you can separate them.
The interesting thing is, the pastels become much brighter, somehow, when they are next to each other!
Here’s an example of the multicolor dots. The snowflakes are prettier with a little sparkle, using whatever you have on hand.
The snowflake below shows yellow, gold, green in the center and pink, blue, lavender on the outside. It looks like a stained glass window, doesn’t it?
Make color copies of the snowflakes for gift bags. Apply with adhesive. Carefully eye the center of a white gift bag and apply. It’s easier to brush letter the name with the snowflake in place. I might also make tags to match.
I added silver washi tape around the snowflake and voila! A beautiful beginning to a gentler season. May you make special memories this year!
Phawnda Moore is a professional calligrapher and nationally-recognized designer, writer and artist. She has a degree in English, a certificate in graphic design from UC Davis, and studies with master calligraphers. Phawnda is a writer at EmptyEasel.com. She also contributes art and articles to three calligraphic societies’ publications as well as Letter Arts Review and Bound & Lettered. She was a graphic designer and editor for 30 years and previously held positions for county and state education offices of communication. Phawnda teaches often throughout California. Her creative, interactive workshops blend modern tools with traditional design principles. To see more of her work, visit her on Facebook.
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For chin, at RHE of maker, wind 20 wraps of turquoise and red together in a wedge with widest part at edge of maker.
Wind 20 wraps of white between chin and teeth. Wind 30 wraps of white to left of nose. Wind 10 wraps of yellow over white towards LHE. Wind 10 wraps of white until even.
For eye sockets, wind 60 wraps of gold, starting a couple of wraps down from top of yellow, finishing a couple of wraps up from nose.
Wind 15 wraps of turquoise over gold, starting and finishing a couple of wraps in from edges of gold. Then wind 10 wraps of black in centre of turquoise.
Wind 15 wraps of turquoise over black, then wind 60 wraps of gold over turquoise.
To complete eye socket, wind 10 wraps of yellow over gold. At LHE of maker wind 12 wraps of bright pink and red leaving a gap to yellow. Fill gap with 10 wraps of white.
Fill maker with white. There is already more yarn at LHE of maker due to the eye sockets; this helps to give a natural skull shape.
To complete pompom, fill other half of maker with white. Complete and remove it from maker.
Trim the skull so it is naturally pointy towards chin, but bulbous at crown. Keep trimming until you are happy with the shape.
The finished product:
